Quotes by : Mike Jay

Come the revolution, however, mesmerism was reconceived once more. From its beginnings many had seen....

Matthews' shout of treason in the House was no random outburst of lunacy, but the last act in an astonishing....

To look back before 1800 is to enter another world, one where the number of institutions for the mad....

It was Matthews, of course, for whom the verdict was the greatest disaster. Not only had he failed to....

The French army had crowned a campaign of extraordinary successes by defeating the Austrians at Jemappes....

The Air Loom, if Matthews revealed its existence under questioning, would now be recognised immediately....

James Tilly Matthews was not a prophet. He was a gifted, perhaps fragile individual who suffered intensely,....

We think of 1789 as the date of the French Revolution, and the storming of the Bastille as its defining....

We are now edging across the boundary - always a porous one - between self-justification and fantasy.....

The Air Loom, for all its florid craziness, can be seen to have a function and a rationale: as a miraculous,....